“In December 2021, two months before the start of a special military operation, we did not think about anything other than a peaceful settlement. We handed over draft documents to the United States and the North Atlantic Alliance that were aimed at agreeing on security guarantees in the western direction,” Lavrov said.
He also claims that at the moment Russia allegedly does not harbor any aggressive plans against NATO members and EU countries, the TASS propaganda agency reports.
“We are ready to set out the corresponding guarantees in writing in a legal document. Of course, on a collective, mutual basis,” Lavrov said. At the same time, he stated that a “militaristic frenzy” allegedly reigns in Europe now, and repeated the words of the illegitimate Russian President Vladimir Putin that if European countries decide to fight with Russia, then Moscow is ready for this “even now.”
Context
The Russian Federation launched a war against Ukraine in 2014, when it occupied Crimea and parts of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine from the northern, eastern and southern directions. In the spring of the same year, the Ukrainian army deoccupied the north of the country, and in the fall – parts of the Kharkov and Kherson regions, in particular Kherson.
